Buenos Aires, 26 May 2026 – Argentine authorities seized over 700 live marine animals—surgeonfishes, pufferfishes, lionfishes, and butterflyfishes—shipped illegally from Kenya to Buenos Aires. Destined for aquariums, many arrived dead …
The 4 Percent, 11 December 2025 – At CITES’ latest conference parties delivered some big wins for endangered wildlife by strengthening trade protections for over 120 species. But there were …
Samarkand, 2 December 2025 – Parties adopted measures to strengthen and clarify the use of Source Code R (ranching) for aquatic species, ensuring it is applied only when supported by …
TRAFFIC, October 2025 – Kenya’s trade in marine ornamental fish, according to a 2025 TRAFFIC report, involves millions of wild-caught fish exported over the past decade, yet suffers from major …
Global Tipping Points, 13 October 2025 – The world’s warm water coral reefs are the first of 25 vulnerable Earth systems to have reached a tipping point, according to the …
Mongabay News, 19 September 2025 – Pet sharks may seem like the next “cool” exotic animal to own, but Monica Biondo warns that the ethics behind keeping them – from …
The Revelator, 16 December 2024 – “We’ve got to shrink the flavors of fishes available to hobbyists”, says a ornamental fish trade veteran and tells about these gray areas: the …
12 – 19 July 2024: The 33nd Animals Committee meeting to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species CITES took place in Geneva, Switzerland. After the CITES International Technical …
20 June 2024: Presenting our new findings at the 7th European Conference of Conservation Biology in Bologna, Italy. The centuries-old, multi-billion-dollar trade in marine ornamental fishes has never been reliably …
99% der tropischen Salzwasserfische kommen aus dem Meer. Keine Nachzuchten alles frisch gefangen aus dem Meer, weil es einfach nicht möglich ist, sie zu züchten. 99% of tropical saltwater fishes …
